DISCLAIMER: Same as usual.

Yeah, yeah, I know! My other fics...

I'll get around to it! Jeez!

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Enjoy. My audience, I mean. Well, and Mertie too...if you exist, that is ! !
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Yes! I, Birdie num num, have finally created the Anda smiley!

Okay... so it needs a little perfecting, but...SEE THE STALK EYES?! AND THE LITTLE EARS?!

Okay, okay! So they're big ears! So what?! You try!

Actually, that's a great trivia idea! Whoever can create the perfect Anda smiley gets a whole chapter dedicated especially to them, in any one of my stories!

Gonrod

I slowly woke up, bewildered.

I was still standing at the helm, my hands on the controls, where I had been, piloting the dome.

I was in the main section of the dome; the bridge.

When the ship had been hit, the bridge had been sealed, and had stayed intact. It had been pulled into Earth's gravitational field, and then, had hurtled down to Earth.

I looked next to me. There, lay Captain Zalismaine.

A thick metal beam from overhead had fallen and struck him on the head.

He was dead, the poor old one.

I felt pity for him.

Though more pity for me, at the moment. I slowly wandered about the bridge, fearful.

I found the drop shaft.

I went down.

And fell to the ground.

Ow!

I had landed...on grass and pine needles.

Not too bad. But where was I? Surely the human country America, I hoped!

Yes, it must be. The tall pines, and woodlands. They made sense. They were indigenous to this area.

The Animorphs...surely they were around here somewhere...

I tried to think of something I could remember. The humans...a barn...

That was it! A barn! All I had to do was find the human Cassie's barn!

Simple.

But...I didn't want to go...alone... I decided to go back up and check on the others. Maybe someone...besides me had survived.

I went directly under the dropshaft, and shuddered as I looked up into the eerie darkness of the ship. I jumped and thought 'Up', hoping the ship's energy would grab me.

It did, and I flew up...

and out, onto the top of the ship.

I groaned as I stood on the roof. What a pain in the...

Wait.

I looked around.

I could see around for miles up here!

Excellent! I said, aloud.

But I'd better get away from here, I thought. The Yeerks will be back soon, and very soon to destroy the rest of this...and look for any survivors.

After several tries resulting in landing on the roof and landing on the ground, I managed to get back in.

I looked over at Zalismaine. I ought to bury him, I thought.

But...but I might get caught by the Yeerks if I stay here too long.

W-well, I...I won't! I'll just stay here to bury him, and then I'll leave!

Besides, I couldn't just leave someone who had treated me so kindly to be eaten by Taxxons...

I checked around. There were five other warriors. I checked them over quickly, but accurately.

All dead.

I tried to fight down the panic. No...no...I was alone...absolutely alone...

I tried to think...alright...if Aximili had survived in his dome, then...perhaps the arisths had survived!

I remembered also that Prince Ylairn, and...and Warrioress Kaetila had still been mobile, when the domeship's main, fighting body had been fired upon. Perhaps they were alive and with our arisths!

Excellent! Then I would find them!

But first, the Animorphs, since I had a pretty good idea of where they'd be.

I quickly lowered each body down the dropshaft, dug a hole for it, and buried them. I buried them a little ways away, in a meadow nearby.

It took me all day, working feverishly, only taking stops to feed and drink, now and then.

At late afternoon, I was finished. All six were buried in a row, in their own, neat, respective graves. I quickly performed the ritual of death.

Time to get away. I was panicking inside. I had been all day. The slightest noise made me jump.

There was no way to mark the graves, so when I got back in the ship, I logged the order they were in in the computer.

It wasn't as if I would ever forget. Their names, ranks, and the order I buried them were forever etched onto my mind.

Heart pounding, and nearly bursting, I ran.

My hooves pounded the ground, and I had no idea where I was going...